Unscentable

Chapter 24 - Unscentable

Bradley POV

At the store! She owned 3 stores, checked the one here in Portland, but she was not there, no real surprise, and he was not expecting her to be here in Portland, he knew she had been at the store when Timothy had collected her. So she was not going to go back there.

Bradley booked Hadley onto a flight home to Montana. He couldn’t keep the girl out here with him, not while he needed to be actively searching for Piper, she was likely to wander off again trying to take matters into her own hands, and that had not gone down so well. If Piper hadn’t stepped in and helped out she likely would also be missing right now.

He made sure that there was someone at the airport to actually pick her up. His father stated he would do it himself. So the girl couldn’t do anything stupid like come back out there. Bradley put her on that flight himself, watched her walk down the gangplank and stood and watched it take off to make sure she
didn’t sneak off of it. Alpha females could be more than stubborn and a handful to boot.

Drove himself the 2 hour drive to Olympia, to check her store there. No such luck. He couldn’t see her, even went into the store and asked when she would be coming to the store next, wasn’t expected at all. He sat around and watched the store all day, even after the manager closed it up, it was Sunday
afternoon and closed up at 1400. He stayed longer than that, hoping Piper would show up and let herself in after hours. No such luck.

Cooper had gotten on a flight to LA, where her other store was, and was checking that out himself, staking it out as Bradley was the store here in Olympia. Waited on Coopers call only to find out that the store too was closed and there was no sign of Piper or Brandon. She only owned 3 stores, and Izzy had told Eddie ‘at the store.’ frowned deeply. There was something twitching in his brain but he couldn’t quite put his finger on it.

Asked Cooper to stake that store out all night until it was opened in the morning, and he would do the same here in Olympia. Sat in the damned car all night, not a single sign of her or his boy.

He had pocketed the picture Hadley had taken from Piper's house, he did not need his father calling him and hounding him about the boy, who would be his first grandson. Bradley could well imagine the harassment he would be getting over bringing him in. His brother only had girls.

Sighed heavily as he stared at the store, as the manager here opened it up for business, still there was no sign of Piper or his son. This was not good. They didn’t know who she hung out with, if she had other human friends to go to for help. Hell she could have a closed network of rogues that she might be
affiliated with and gone to them for protection. He didn’t know.

Cooper reported the same from LA, and both Harry and Eddie were on their way back now too. He’d been informed that Izzy had fled from Eddie and the man’s wolf had ripped right out of him to try and claim the girl, that Harry had to stop it and contain the beast. Nothing good out there, nothing good out
here.

Everyone was headed back to Portland. Izzy was likely to head home. Obviously she had no idea, she had allowed Eddie and his wolf to claim her. That he’d talked her into claiming him right back and was now bound to the man by the moon goddess herself. Even without the full moon upon them. Was going to have to get that girl back to his pack, along with Eddie, and sort that shit out as well.

He was going to have to sit the woman down and explain what they were, what she actually was to Eddie and hope she did not freak out completely and out right reject his Gamma. It might help to tell her that Piper and Brandon were also wolves, that should go a long way into showing her that they were not monsters.

If she could be swayed into a Mate Bond with Eddie, he would initiate her into his pack right away, but that was for his own selfish needs. He could use her loyalty oath to get the information about Piper out of her, she would have to
tell him once she was a pack member and he was her Alpha.